Have you ever finished a book or series and wished that you could find something similar? NoveList is here to help.
The resource suggests title, author, and series read-alikes and will also tell you the rationale for the suggestion. These can range from similar writing styles, to themes, to settings.
With many titles including reviews from both Goodreads and professional sources, it’s easy to find your next great read. If you’d rather browse, you can check out the booklists that are available for all age groups in both fiction and non-fiction.
Don’t forget that NoveList links directly to the library’s catalog, so that you can easily request titles.
Learn anything from Cantonese to Ukrainian to Shakespearean English with this digital resource. Mango Languages offers multi-level courses for children and adults with visual and auditory elements. Some languages feature specialty units such as Spanish for Business or Japanese Mimetic Words.
Mango also offers a free app so that you can learn on the go! The program will keep track of your progress so that you can pick up right where you left off.
If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about the online resource Tutor.com, now’s your chance. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and your local library are hosting training sessions for staff and patrons.
The staff-focused training is a quick and comprehensive walk-through of Tutor.com. This training session will equip you with the knowledge and skills that you need to help patrons navigate the resource and market its features.
There will be two trainings offered for the public. The first is an introduction to Tutor.com, how to access it, as well as its many features, such as live tutoring and homework help. The second training is focused on SAT/ACT prep and how Tutor.com can offer support.
All webinars will be recorded and shared with all registrants, so if the time doesn’t work for you or your patrons, don’t worry!
The thing about holiday collections in libraries is that for the one month of the year that they are featured, they are in such high-demand that our shelves clear out. (An excellent problem to have!) So how do we supplement our physical collections with available holiday content? Answer: hoopla!
Unlike other digital collections, hoopla materials are always available. When staff direct patrons to the resource, we can rest assured that the suggested title we recommend will be there. And fortunately, hoopla makes it even easier to recommend titles with curated holiday collections!
From Halloween to Christmas, hoopla supplies curated content to fit the needs and whims of library patrons of all ages. Not only does hoopla provide quality content in convenient collections, but they also offer marketing tools & social media assets to make it easy to promote to your patrons!
The holiday promo tools include flyers, social media images, and links to Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas & holiday Bonus Borrows collections. There is even a link to examples of library social media posts to make your library’s promotions that much easier!
Find the links for posters, Facebook, Instagram & Twitter graphics next to each collection.
Go ahead and stick printed flyers out with your physical holiday collections to promote these always available collections!
I personally enjoy the digital catalog of holiday collections on hoopla. Brings me back to flipping through holiday store catalogs as a child and circling all of the toys I wanted, but now it’s all the books and movies I want to check out. It even links directly to the content in hoopla, making it a one-stop-shop! You can share the link to the catalog directly with your patrons in your social posts or on your website.
Need more promo ideas? Head to the hoopla resources page for additional marketing tools & assets. They provide a vast array of promo materials for any time of year. And don’t forget to scroll to the bottom of the page because there is a ton of info there, too! I find the Quarter Assets to be especially helpful because they highlight timely themes (e.g. Cookbook Month in October, National Native American Heritage Month in November, etc.)
